Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-03

Dublin Castle
THE Canadian elections took place on the
2ed. The result was favorable to the Mac
donald Government, the Conservatives be-
ing in a good majority.
1T is reported that in return for the
Pope's recent friendship Germany has con-
sented to act as mediator between the Ital-
| ian Government and the Vatican The Vat
leans proposal is that part Of Rome, in
Guiding s'Leonine City, and zone extended
| from the Vatican to the sea by Civita Vec-
| CHA, shall become the absolute property of
the Pope.
TERRIBLE and disastrous earthquake
shocks occurred in the southeastern part of
France and the northwestern part of Italy
on the morning of the 23d- At Crevo, near
Diano Marine. 800 lives were lost At Noh,
near Genoa, fifteec lives were lost, and at
Oneglia six were killed. Scores were also
reported killed at Diano Marine. The num-
Der of injured run into the thousands. The
shocks were felt at Nice, Toulon, Marseilles,
Genoa, Cannes, Turin, Milan and as far as
Geneva. The damage to property was in
calculable.
form a new cabinet and has resigned his
commission.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Battenburg, is
seriously i'll with gastric fever.
THE Portuguese have bombarded Funge,
a town in Zanzibar. Reinforcements have
been sent from Portugal.to the Governor Of
Mozambique.
THE British steamship Weatherall has
been sunk in collision with bark and one
of the crew has been lost.
VIENNA diplomats surmise that the state
ments of the Russian press that Russia will
abstain from action IN Bulgaria until the
relations between France and Germany be-
come more clearly defined are intended to
divert the attention of the powers from
E2,Ilo oTia tUha ct he
apprehended.
THE newspapers of Paris are jubilant over
the result of the election in Alsace- Lorraine.
THE people of the Sanwan islands have
positively declined to be annexed to the
Sandwich islands.
WoRKMEN and Socialists INDUCED in a
free fight in an Amsterdam cafe the other
night and the police had hard work restor-
ing order.
An unknown schooner has been wrecked
on the coast of Vancouver's island. Twelve
of the crew were drowned.
THE British bark Fanny Atkinson, Cap
tain Hawthorne was abandoned, water
logged, February Z, in the Gulf of Mexico,
while on a voyage from Apalachicola for
Belfast. The British steamer Costa Rican,
from New Orleans, rescued the crew and
set fire to the vessel.
DISPATCHES from Rome of the oath stated
that the victims of the recent earthquake
numbered thousands. In the Genoese
Riviera two thousand were reported killed,
three hundred being killed in a church,
whittier they went after the first shock.
The second shock appeared to be the most
fatal. :.
THE jury at Dublin trying the cases of
Dillon, O'Brien, Redmond and others, the
Nationalist, reported that they were una
BILE to agree.
IT is reported that three officers impli-
Gated in the recently discovered military
plot have been hanged at st. Petersburg.
The Russian Government has strictly en-
joined official secrecy respecting the con-
spiracy.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Battenberg, eX-
ruler of Bulgaria, is suffering with small
pox and not gastric fever, as at first sup
posed.
THE Reichsrath at Vienna has passed the
extra military credit for equlpplng the
landsturm. The vote was unanimous.
IT is rumored that the German Govern
ment has given orders for extensive ma
neuvers of the German fleet in the Baltic in
August.
THE French Senate by vote of 30 to 81
reinserted in the budget the credit for sub
projects, the rejection of which by the
Chamber of Deputies was the cause of the
overthrow of the Freycinet Ministry.
SIR MICHAEL HICKs-BEACH, Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, has decided to remove Sir
sheriff of Waterford, Tor ms share in the
Nationalist demonstration.
THE LATEST.
SENATOR SHERMAN on the 18th received q
personal note from the President, stating
that he had conferred with number OF
Senators on the subject and had reached
conclusion that there existed no necessity
for special session of the Senate.
A QUESTION of veracity has been raised
otAlr.1
of the Young Mems Democratic Club, of
Brooklyn, m regard tolHewitt's letter. The
Governor has denied that he saw the letter
or had any thing to do with the failure to
have it read.
THE Industrial Gazette, of ST. Louis, makes
the announcement that there has just been
uncovered, near Tuscaloosa, Ala, bed OF
rel hematlte iron ore sixteen feet thick,
which analyses 6215 per cent. of metallic
iron, and is believed to be the most extern
sive and valuable deposit of the kind i'll the
United States.
THE will of George Hutchins, of Ancora,
n. j., bequeathing $4,000 to Henry George
for the dissemination of literature on social
liberty, has been admitted to probate
THE New York Railroad Commissioners
have recommended the passage of bill to
insure safety in lighting and heating cars.
GOVERNOR LEE, of Virginia, has issued
proclamation calling an extra session OF
the Legislature on the 10th of March.
Mrs. LOGAN has selected the center OF
the circle of the north end of South park,
Chicago, for the burial place for herself
and General Logan, and the site for the
monument.
THE President has approved the act to
indemnify certain subjects of the Chinese
empire for losses sustained by violence of
mob at Rock Springs, Wyo. T.. in Septem-
Der, 1885.
THE uro-Pneumonia bill was before
the Senate on the 18th. The House Pacific
railroad resolution was amended and passed
and conference asked. The Naval Appro-
priation bill was before the House.
Another terrible blizzard was reported
in Dakota on the 18th.
WILLIAM BUSCH, the murderer who